Ergebnis für "Strings" in Historische Romane

From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This...

Elijah Parker is desperate. His wife is dead, his newborn son is starving and he has given up hope. Only a miracle can save Elijah and his son, but sometimes miracles come at a cost. Set in the southern United States in the 1930's, black sharecropper Elijah Parker must find a way to support himself and his newborn son after the death of his beloved wife Seraphina. When all hope seems lost a stranger appears and offers Elijah a chance to have everything he has ever dreamed of, a home, a job and someone to help him raise his son. Could this be the miracle Elijah has been hoping for?

11th-century North Africa. Kella is a girl disguised as a boy, traveling the trade routes and beating all comers in the camel races. When her true identity is revealed, she is sent home to the family desert camp to be taught women’s skills. But Kella yearns for her freedom and the excitement of life on the road, and when a mighty army sets out on a holy mission, she risks marriage to its general, Yusuf. While Yusuf conquers the whole of North Africa, Kella finds herself a rival to his infamous queen consort, Zaynab, a powerful and jealous woman.

Estalla la revolución, y anhelos de justicia y libertad brotan en la mente de los hombres. El rey de Franciaacaba de ser ajusticiado cuando dos viejos conocidos se reencuentran tras una traición, dos hombres quecomparten dos sinceras pasiones: música y revolución.

Una mujer rica y de éxito muere en el mismo momento en el que el hombre al que amaba aparece en la lista de pasajeros del fatídico vuelo de Germanwings estrellado en los Alpes franceses el 24 de marzo de 2015. Sara Mendieta, propietaria del edificio de la zona alta de Barcelona donde se halla el cadáver, será el objetivo de la investigación y la obsesión de los policías Joel Sanz e Isabel Morgado.

Ethel, a black maid in a racist world - the true heart and soul of the Mackey Family - is the children's only constant as she fights her own numerous demons. Twelve-year-old Sallee struggles to understand the world with little enlightenment from the adults around her. Her older sister Stuart, a college student in New York City, finally escaped the South and drama of her family only to succumb to the terrible temptations of urban life.